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[Today if anyone's wandering into Seventh Heaven, they'll find Kairi sitting at a table by herself. Thanks to Sanji, she's agreed to pick up a few shifts at the restaurant as a part-time waitress. She's just finished her shift for the day and she's got her Luceti-provided journal open in front of her, along with a sheet of what looks like purple paper. She had leafed through the pages of the Luceti journal, checking on the village, but now she's occasionally writing lines on the purple page. If anyone were to get close enough to look, they'd see:

Thinking of you, wherever you are. It's been a little over two months since you left...almost three, actually, but I still think about you every day. I think we all do.

[She pauses in her writing then upon realizing two things. A.) This is very much like a letter she wrote to Sora about fifteen months ago and B.) It's been almost three months since the brunette left. It felt weird the longer she thought about it, thinking about how close she had become to some people and how distant she was starting to feel from the boy who was...no, is her best friend.

It disturbs her, in a way. Enough to cause her to push the letter aside, turning her attention back to her Luceti-journal to address the public. Her voice is pretty casual, but anyone who knows her well enough may notice there's a slight hesitance.]

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What would you consider a good balance between making a life here in Luceti and keeping your life in your own world in focus? I mean in the sense of...well...let's talk about jobs for instance. Do you think it's important to make yourself useful here, or would you rather wait until you go home since it may not matter once we leave anyway?

Or friends, even. Do you only call people from your world your best friends, or have you made new best friends here?

[She pauses, trying to think of how to wrap this up. Keep it casual, keep it light.] It's not really a big deal, I'm just kind of curious what everyone thinks.

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...can I talk to you about something? Just when you have some time.

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[Hmm, that's an interesting question.]

I think, wherever you are, it's important to be a contributing member of the community. Even in Luceti, where so much is provided, there's still things that need to be done. People that need to be helped.

Just because you're bound to leave and forget this place doesn't mean that what you do here won't matter. If you can just make things a little better, make people a little happier for a while, that's important. You should think about the past and the future, but you shouldn't make the mistake of forgetting the present.

I'd say I've made a best friend, here. And it's depressing to think that I'll never see her again after Luceti, but all I can do is enjoy the time we have.

That's probably one of the most clear answers I've received since asking, thank you. [She pauses briefly to think over everything, digest it a little.]

I guess that's ultimately why I started working. I've been here for years, and I just felt like I wasn't doing enough. [She had the boys as a safety net, and she was supportive of all of her friends, sure, but what had she been doing for the good of the village? She wasn't like Sora who could protect everyone.]

What about you? What have you been doing to provide for the community?

I was a physician back home, so I've been working at the village clinic. It's been a pretty fascinating experience--a lot of the technology here is far ahead of my time, so I've had quite a bit of catching up to do. [He chuckles a little. Ah, that day he discovered antiviral drugs and the polio vaccine was a good one.] I think, on top of my desire to make myself useful, I would have been terribly bored if I hadn't been at work from the outset, honestly. I'm so accustomed to having a tight schedule that I find it hard to figure out what to do with my time otherwise.

Oh! [It's a bit surprising to her still to meet people who had such big and important careers back in their own worlds. She finds it fascinating to watch how they adapt.] I'd say that's definitely doing your share of providing. The clinic could always use the extra help, especially when the drafts sweep through the village.

[She can't help but laugh slightly.] I know a few people just like that. Can't stand being idle...have you been here long?

Not as long as some. It's been...about five months? Yeah. I went from a warm August day to sitting outside in the dead of winter, pleasantly enough.

Five months still isn't something to just brush off. [She winces a bit as she imagines that kind of drastic change. She felt it too when she went from being on her island to coming here in January.] But was it really all that pleasant?

Not at all. [He gives another soft chuckle.] It's fortunate that I didn't get frostbite, considering how bewildered I was. Thank goodness that a few people offered to help me.

[That has always surprised him--the kindness of the majority of the villagers. There's definitely something to be said for shared experiences.]

I'd say about three-fourths of the people here are really willing to help get the New Feathers settled, especially those of us who have been here a few years. I think we've all learned that we have to rely on each other here.

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